This paper seeks to advance human rights scholarship by locating the right to health within the broader frameworks of socioeconomic development and political governance. It identifies two critical factors as fundamentally responsible for the dismal state of health and wellbeing of Africans...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 2010, and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, 2010, (together known as “Obamacare”) have as their objective the provision of comprehensive health care coverage for most residents of the United States. But rather than follow the...

This paper is not an doctrinal exposition of the human right to health or its application to Nigeria. Instead, it is an analysis of key public health issues impacting upon the actualization of the right in the country. More of a report, its objective is to present a reliable account of the...

One of the polarizing issues in the current health reform debate is whether a public option should be incorporated in the final legislation. While the program is favored by the President and most congressional Democrats, the idea is overwhelmingly opposed by Republicans. This discord has given...

This paper is an excursion into the operation of the recently launched National Health Insurance Scheme of Nigeria. Its primary task is to determine whether social health insurance in Nigeria, as expressed in the statute establishing the scheme, has prospects for actualizing its promise of,...

This article analyzes the difficulties surrounding justiciability of the right to health care in Nigeria and the implications for access issues. It argues that claims denying justiciability on the grounds of an absence of a legal foundation and/or paucity of resources are misplaced. This...

The goal of every health system is (or ought to be) universal health care. This goal is reflected in obligations nations have assumed under a number of international, regional and domestic legal and policy frameworks. In general, these frameworks provide broad guidelines, leaving each country at...

The combined force of the National Health Act (NHA) 2014, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Act 1999 and revised National Health Policy (NHP) 2004 is monumental in terms of fashioning new avenues for protecting the health and wellbeing of Nigerians. The legislative and policy frameworks...

A common feature of all high performing health systems is their anchor on equity, fairness and universal access to health services – the trinity of better health. While some countries, such as Britain and Canada, have attained this threshold, others with nascent and fragile health systems,...

This paper considers an often neglected question bordering on the intersection of health and human rights in Africa – and that is, the role of factors other than paucity of resources in negatively impacting the health of the population. Most of the available scholarship on this issue treats...